Messing with the Gimp.

IMG_8916_900×600_bw, uploaded by marky moo.

Just downloaded The Gimp (which is free) as I’ve been after some software with a channel mixer that outputs monochrome (for black and white).

This allows you to mimic the use of colour filters with black and white film. For example, a red filter makes the blue sky dark, a green filter lightens up the folliage.

Anyway, it is a bit clunky on Windows and I’ve not tried it on Linux yet (or not for about six years), but if you want to do some black and white stuff with your digital photos then you may find this a lot more useful than Photoshop Elements.

(Note: I’m assuming that PS Elements doesn’t have the channel mixer. I’ve been using Elements 2.0, which is quite a few years old now.)

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2 Responses to “Messing with the Gimp.”

Gordon
April 11th, 2006 21:00
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I’m quite happy with Picasa and Elements myself, currently playing with PhotoShop CS which is proving to be a bit of a leap!
marky moo
April 14th, 2006 13:40
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Photoshop CS? Lucky you! I like elements a lot, but it’s just not an option for black and white.

I’m actually thinking of dumping windows alltogether and moving to either apple mac or going back to linux. With linux I’ll have the gimp, but raw support isn’t too great (so I’m told).

If I go to mac I may get some better tools (like Aperture and perhaps photoshop), but I’ll have to pay quite a lot for the privilege